Kester Brewin

I think the time is right to drop the curtain on ‘Signs of Emergence’  / ‘The Complex Christ’ / ‘Der Jesus Faktor’ and move on. The idea of this blog has been to give some space to extend the ideas presented in that book, and, personally, I feel that’s been successful. But you shouldn’t keep [...]

It’s probably just me, but you ever got all your laundry done, finally cleared out the utility room, got the whole lot ironed, and realised you don’t actually have the cupboard space to put it all? Dirt and excess. I’ve often thought about a year’s project based on Matthew 6 where I’d aim to give [...]

I’m really pleased to see the Wikiklesia book published in physical form. Go get your copy here and support Not For Sale as you do. I contributed a chapter on the move between text, audio and video, which seems to have gone down well. Wikiklesia is one of those great publishing projects you are happy [...]

Thanks to everyone who helped out to give Signs a fantastic launch last night. It was great to phrase it as a time of worship; the guys from the Bridge imagined different sections in terms of doing laundry. Out of that I wrote this piece, meditating on ‘the human dress’, beginning with a quote from [...]

Ben has an excellent and honest post here outlining his doubts about the ‘missional entrepreneur’ that is in popular parlance. I’ve posted a comment outlining some thoughts on how the role of the artist might help us imagine this in a new way. Technorati: Ben Edson | Mission | Entrepreneur

My brother came back from visiting two friends (not pictured in France the other day. They had sold up, moved over there with their kids and bought a tiny run down farm in the countryside. They live on/off it at pretty subsistence level with a few cattle to fatten and growing their own veg. They [...]

So, Signs of Emergence finally hits the shops on 1st July… I’m really excited about the book coming out in the US and Canada, especially as so many of the ideas within it have sprung from great work done over there. To all you people who’ve been queuing up for days outside stores to get [...]

Spent a glorious sunny Spring day on the allotment today. Jonny recently posted a photo celebrating the great weather we’ve had (on and off) recently. And today was another stunner. Having oh-so-mocked, it’s good to see Grace have an allotment now too… In fact there are record waiting lists at most plots across London. I’m [...]

Some time ago I wrote a piece on Art vs Justice, which threw about some arguments as to whether art is ethical when people are still dying of hunger. More recently some discussion around that issue came up over on Jonny’s blog as to whether art is ‘vital’ in itself or not. Tonight my niece [...]

Iris Frankie Brewin, born 27th Feb. 7lb 8oz. At home. All well. Could be quiet around this blog. It sure isn’t at home